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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. What a story or play is about.
Couplet
Quatrain
Subject
Caesura
2. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Figurative Language
Recognition
Pyrrhic
3rd Person (Limited)
3. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Sestet
Epigram
Character
3rd Person (Limited)
4. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Catharsis
Situational Irony
Tercet
Subplot
5. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Antagonist
Pyrrhic
Subject
3rd Person (Omniscient)
6. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Fiction
Motif
Climax
Meter
7. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Denotation
Metaphor
Foot
Repetition
8. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Exposition
Aside
Diction
Meter
9. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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10. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Lyric Poem
Narrative Poem
Antagonist
Anapest
11. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Author's Purpose
Conflict
Personification
Tercet
12. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Blank Verse
Fiction
Narrator
Setting
13. Broken down acts.
Simile
Satire
Elision
Scenes
14. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Analogy
Epiphany
Ballad
Elegy
15. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Act
Free Verse
Parallelism
Caesura
16. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Foil
Blank Verse
Plot
Assonance
17. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Verbal Irony
Parody
Sonnet
Assonance
18. A strong pause within a line.
Denotation
Characterization
Caesura
Blank Verse
19. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Enjambment
Allegory
Pyrrhic
Flashback
20. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Falling Action
Rising Action
Legend
Syntax
21. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Connotation
Metaphor
Denouement
22. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Denouement
Internal Conflict
Character
Aside
23. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Characterization
Denouement
Tone
Connotation
24. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Irony
Onomatopoeia
Subject
Denotation
25. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Stanza
Nonfiction
Sestina
Aphorism
26. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Personification
Subplot
Anapest
Paradox
27. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Author's Purpose
Connotation
Point of View
Paradox
28. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Stanza
Folklore
Hyperbole
Quatrain
29. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Caesura
Alliteration
Enjambment
Synecdoche
30. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Convention
Characterization
Denouement
Parallelism
31. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Verbal Irony
Metonymy
Falling Meter
Flashback
32. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Epic
Epigram
Comic Relief
Dactyl
33. A four line stanza in a poem.
Quatrain
Closed Form
Hyperbole
Denotation
34. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Rhythm
Foreshadowing
Personification
3rd Person (Omniscient)
35. The person who 'tells' the story.
Diction
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Motif
Narrator
36. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Narrative Poem
Ode
Dramatic Irony
Style
37. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Connotation
Allegory
Foot
Villanelle
38. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Elision
Ode
Structure
Alliteration
39. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Simile
Irony
Rising Action
Dialogue
40. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Scenes
Catharsis
Understatement
Stereotype
41. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Understatement
Author's Purpose
Spondee
Repetition
42. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Symbol
Aubade
Exposition
Epigram
43. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Allusion
Audience
Enjambment
Plot
44. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Complication
Nonfiction
Caesura
Theme
45. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Paradox
Meter
Personification
Trochee
46. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
1st Person
Apostrophe
Parable
Solioquy
47. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Plot
Internal Conflict
Parable
Sestina
48. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Simile
Figurative Language
Foreshadowing
Couplet
49. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Falling Meter
Symbol
Syntax
Aphorism
50. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
Foil
Mood
Elision
Allegory
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